Detecting Mouse_OUT on Moving Object

[jello_chick]

Hi all

I'm working on something where when a user places their mouse over a horse in a race, it will display the horse's name and post position. This works great and has a Mouse_OUT which then removes the display of the name/post position. However, I've noticed that if I place my mouse over a horse and leave it there and said horse moves away from underneath where my mouse was, the name/post position become stuck on the screen until you mouse over that horse again.

Here is what I have set up so far: http://www.equination.net/images/raceviewer1.html

In a nutshell, it's just a very simple listener triggering a function...

horse1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, showPost1, false, 0, true);
horse1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, hidePost1, false, 0, true);

function showPost1(evt:MouseEvent):void {
   stuff in here to display the post number over the horse in relation to their current x/y values, display the text field and update with the name
}

function hidePost1(evt:MouseEvent):void {
  remove the post number/name children from the stage
}

I'm not really sure how to handle this scenario so that it will use the hidePost1 if the object moves out from underneath the horse.

Thanks for reading

[jAQUAN]

That's the correct method. Perhaps it is due to how you target, store and remove the info. You'll have to show some of that code in order to troubleshoot.

[jello_chick]

That's basically it in a nutshell, along with a timer that moves the horses along their x axis.

I wound up putting an event listener on the scrolling background for a MOUSE_OVER. On Mouse Over I triggered a function that simple set the visibility of all the post position numbers to false and cleared the horse name text field at the bottom. It seems to have resolved the problem, though it is a bit of a pain to have to go the extra mile because it can't detect mouse_out if the object moves out from under the mouse. But, it seems to work perfectly and detects when the mouse seems to move onto it as the object in between gets out of the way.